Manipulation and Corruption

Corruption has become an issue of major political and economic significance in recent years and the necessity to take measures against it has become evident.

Explooring Manipulation ?...ask Mbah Ghus Taf..on the spot

Goodbye Geo Counter

I'm no longer using Geo Counter (geocompteur) widget

From today, I'm no longer using Geo Counter (geocompteur) widget from www.widgeo.net with their third site map on www.compteur.cc. I love the widget view, but main reason I terminated using their service is they put advertises running by hidden script. It's annoying much...specially for my advertise on my own blog.

So, I CAN'T HARDLY WAIT TO DUMP www.widgeo.net from my blog.

At the first time, I'm so impressed by their widget skin..so attractive. And I realized they have policies that they will puts some ads in my blog. But, never know how often their pop up ads every time I and my friends or visitor load my blog. Until I count that their ads pop up in 2-3 ads windows for every single blog loading. Sometime their ads also appear inline of any word and crash my inline ads from adbrite or kontera which truly give me cash . I'm sure some of you still remember how disappointed when come to my blog in the past. I'm so sorry for that.

As you can read from www.widgeo.net, they have policies :

Policies

Our widgets are offered free of charge.

HTML code may not be modified by users.

We offer no guarantees of uptime or reliability.

In order to use our free services, you must include ALL of the html given when you sign up including the sponsored link. You may not alter the code. (exceptions may be made for minor formatting that does not hide the links)

If you have any adult content, you must use the right HTML code.

Some of the Products and Services are supported by advertising (Clicksor,CPX interactive(Yahoo),Linkshare,Gunggo...), enabling WIDGEO to provide them to you at no cost. When you use these free services, you agree to allow WIDGEO to display advertising, including third party advertising, through the Products and Services. WIDGEO reserves the right to modify the Products and Services from time to time, for any reason, and without notice, including the right to terminate the Products and Services or to change the nature, style, or form of advertisements displayed through the Products and Services.

With the use of Widgeo products and services on the site it is accepted that WIDGEO has the right to place advertisements on the site in any format or through any channel, including but not limited to e-mail, layer ads, pops, banners and other usual formats without any forewarning and it is furthermore accepted that WIDGEO takes no responsibility for the advertising content and that WIDGEO shall not be liable for any losses incurred regarding this advertising.

Widgeo.net reserves the right to terminate this service at any time and offers no guarantees of uptime or accuracy.

And, not like other similar service, I can't see my traffic detail when I click that widget. So, it less useful for me. They only show traffic report on the widget in my blog. This traffic only for a single day and total visitor information. So, I can't get my yesterday traffic information by this service. This is the widget look in my blog a minutes before I dump it (March 18, 2009 GMT+7) :